It’s not difficult to do the math on how driverless cars could change the equation. An estimated 94 percent of motor-vehicle accidents involve some kind of a driver error. As the number of vehicles with human operators falls, so too will the preventable fatalities. In June, Christopher A. Hart, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said, “Driverless cars could save many if not most of the 32,000 lives that are lost every year on our streets and highways.” Even if self-driving cars only realize a fraction of their projected safety benefits, a decline in the number of available organs could begin as soon as the first wave of autonomous and semiautonomous vehicles hits the road—threatening to compound our nation’s already serious shortages.

All the more reason why we should allow children to walk to school by themselves.

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It’s not difficult to do the math on how driverless cars could change the equation. An estimated 94 percent of motor-vehicle accidents involve some kind of a driver error. As the number of vehicles with human operators falls, so too will the preventable fatalities. In June, Christopher A. Hart, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said, “Driverless cars could save many if not most of the 32,000 lives that are lost every year on our streets and highways.” Even if self-driving cars only realize a fraction of their projected safety benefits, a decline in the number of available organs could begin as soon as the first wave of autonomous and semiautonomous vehicles hits the road—threatening to compound our nation’s already serious shortages.

All the more reason why we should allow children to walk to school by themselves.

I don't think children's organs are developed enough. But encouraging drinking and driving among teenagers may work.

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It’s not difficult to do the math on how driverless cars could change the equation. An estimated 94 percent of motor-vehicle accidents involve some kind of a driver error. As the number of vehicles with human operators falls, so too will the preventable fatalities. In June, Christopher A. Hart, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said, “Driverless cars could save many if not most of the 32,000 lives that are lost every year on our streets and highways.” Even if self-driving cars only realize a fraction of their projected safety benefits, a decline in the number of available organs could begin as soon as the first wave of autonomous and semiautonomous vehicles hits the road—threatening to compound our nation’s already serious shortages.

All the more reason why we should allow children to walk to school by themselves.

I don't think children's organs are developed enough. But encouraging drinking and driving among teenagers may work.

They're not wrong, but I also found the article fairly tactless. Just a quick "Oh, sure it'll be better that a lot of people won't die" and then back to guilt-tripping about how there are so many people in such bad shape on the organ waiting lists. I think there's plenty messed up about the way organ waiting lists are done now, and they go over a lot of it. But the overall tone was just really not good for me reading it.

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Adhering to a more practical definition of brain death, and applying it more stringently, would not only yield more organ donations, it would also have a good effect on the gene pool.

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I am in favor of allowing the "sale" of organs. Even if said sale is tightly regulated and is a flat amount of money paid by the government, it would be a good deal in most cases. Good deal in that it would result in better outcomes for the person needing the organ, and the government would usually be spending less than they do now people in organ failure.

The government paying a flat amount (like $100k for a live one and $10k for dead) would alleviate conccerns about rich people buying organs on the open market as well as stories of people waking up (or being found) in a bathtub full of ice after "selling" their organs.

Yeah I thought that the article decent enough even if it was delivered in hand wringing fashion.

It's still someone managing to wring their hands over the prospect of innocent people not dying in large numbers. Numbers that vastly exceed the number of people who die from lack of donor organs.

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lunchstealer wrote:Do we really need to wait for accidents to harvest organs from motorcyclists?

Bicyclists in spandex would be better.

I think we just need a social justice approach to cycling, where traffic laws = infraction plus power. The bicycle has no power in a collision, so no traffic law is broken by them. Therefore, red lights are for cars and trucks to check their privilege.

That should fix the organ donation shortage.

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lunchstealer wrote:Do we really need to wait for accidents to harvest organs from motorcyclists?

Bicyclists in spandex would be better.

I think we just need a social justice approach to cycling, where traffic laws = infraction plus power. The bicycle has no power in a collision, so no traffic law is broken by them. Therefore, red lights are for cars and trucks to check their privilege.

That should fix the organ donation shortage.

Most of those donations will involve intersectional incidents.

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lunchstealer wrote:Do we really need to wait for accidents to harvest organs from motorcyclists?

Bicyclists in spandex would be better.

I think we just need a social justice approach to cycling, where traffic laws = infraction plus power. The bicycle has no power in a collision, so no traffic law is broken by them. Therefore, red lights are for cars and trucks to check their privilege.

That should fix the organ donation shortage.

Then the victim olympics get all ramped up with pedestrians...

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